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There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

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It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

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The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

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Fox News has been a force in converting the party of Lincoln into the party of Trump. The network's allegiance to Trump approaches mindless adoration.

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If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

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George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 wounded, and the Middle East destabilized with Iranian influence enhanced.

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When I was a kid, I went door to door in my neighborhood asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then for its Israel forestation program. At the age of 11 or so, I imagined myself a regular Johnny Appleseed, responsible for vast forests.

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As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly.

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If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.

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The NRA has led the way in the mainstreaming of a demented gun ideology.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 6th, 1941

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